The importance of narrative in reaching an audience.

Narratives have been around since the beginning of time.  Narratives are a story either relayed as spoken, written, music, or visual representations.  The importance of a narrative in reaching an audience is that it must some how connect to your receiving parties or be ratable.  Narrative uses theme, setting , characters, and plot to relay a story. Normally during a narrative we also have a problem which occurs for our characters, response by the characters to the problem, action taken to resolve the problem, and outcome of the resolved problem.

For example in the story "The three little pigs" we have one little pig who built his house of straw. Enter the big bad wolf who wants to enter the little pig's home and is refused.  The big bad wolf then blows down the little pigs home and eats him.  Same ultimate end happens to the second little pig who built his house of sticks.  The third little pig built his house of bricks so all the huffing and puffing from the big bad wolf proves useless.  The big bad wolf then decides to crawl down the chimney to get to the last little pig.  Fortunately for our hero he builds a fire and puts a big stew pot on to capture and cook the big bad wolf.   Thus ending our story.  As you can see the problem in the story was the big bad wolf trying to eat the pigs(our characters). Our action taken on the problem was actually taken before the problem arose. Two brothers failed because of improper planning and effort building their homes but the 3rd survived due to his previous hard work building a stronger home then his brothers and his quick thinking when the wolf tried to enter his home.  Our outcome was that the 3rd little pig has 2 less Christmas and birthday gifts every year but still enjoys his life.  This simple story can relate to just about any age the importance of proper planning and preparing ahead of time and not going for the easy way out of tasks.